programming languages

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Delphi

Based on 16439 responses from 1446 people, this is the picture we've built up of Delphi.

Most similar to...

  1. Pascal
  2. Visual Basic
  3. Cobol
  4. Eiffel
  5. Ada

Most dissimilar from...

  1. Javascript
  2. Perl
  3. Clojure
  4. C
  5. Ruby

All statements

  1. I would use this language for a desktop GUI project
  2. I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
  3. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  4. This language is good for beginners
  5. This language is likely to be a passing fad
  6. It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
  7. This language has a strong static type system
  8. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  9. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  10. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  11. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  12. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  13. Code written in this language is very readable
  14. It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features
  15. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  16. This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done
  17. When I write code in this language I can be very sure it is correct
  18. This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
  19. If my code in this language successfully compiles, there is a good chance my code is correct.
  20. This language is large
  21. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
  22. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
  23. This is a low level language
  24. Programs written in this language tend to be efficient
  25. I find this language easy to prototype in
  26. I find it easy to write efficient code in this language
  27. This language has a niche in which it is great
  28. This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
  29. This language is best for very large projects
  30. Code written in this language tends to be very reliable
  31. There are many good commercial tools for this language
  32. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  33. This language has a wide variety of agreed-upon conventions, which are generally adhered to reasonably well, and which increase my productivity
  34. This language has a very coherent design
  35. I find code written in this language very elegant
  36. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  37. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  38. This language is expressive
  39. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  40. This is a high level language
  41. I usually use this language on projects with many other members
  42. This language has a good library distribution mechanism.
  43. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  44. I use a lot of code written in this language which I really don't want to have to make changes to
  45. This language is good for numeric computing
  46. I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later
  47. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  48. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  49. I know this language well
  50. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  51. This language is suitable for real-time applications
  52. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  53. This language is best for very small projects
  54. This language has an annoying syntax
  55. This language has a very dogmatic community
  56. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  57. This language is good for scientific computing
  58. I use this language out of choice
  59. I would use this language to write a command-line app
  60. Programs written in this language will usually work in future versions of the language
  61. This language excels at concurrency
  62. This language has a high quality implementation
  63. Programs written in this language tend to play well with others
  64. I can imagine using this language in my day job
  65. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  66. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  67. I enjoy using this language
  68. I would use this language for writing server programs
  69. I know many other people who use this language
  70. When I run into problems my colleagues can provide me with immediate help with this language
  71. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  72. I usually use this language on solo projects
  73. Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
  74. I regularly use this language
  75. This language is good for distributed computing
  76. There are many good tools for this language
  77. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
  78. This language is minimal
  79. This language is well documented
  80. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  81. I would use this language for casual scripting
  82. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  83. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
  84. This language excels at text processing
  85. Code written in this language will usually run in all the major implementations if it runs in one of them.
  86. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  87. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  88. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  89. I use many applications written in this language
  90. Code written in this language tends to be terse
  91. It is too easy to write code in this language that looks like it does one thing but actually does something else
  92. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  93. I would use this language for writing programs for an embedded hardware platform
  94. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  95. This language excels at symbolic manipulation
  96. I would use this language for a web project
  97. I would list this language on my resume
  98. This language is unusually bad for beginners
  99. This language is very flexible
  100. This language has a good community
  101. I would use this language for mobile applications
  102. This is a mainstream language
  103. This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
  104. I would recommend most programmers learn this language, regardless of whether they have a specific need for it
  105. There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language
  106. I still discover new features of this language on a fairly regular basis
  107. I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language
  108. I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
  109. This language is likely to be around for a very long time
  110. There are many good open-source tools for this language